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 630 SHORT NOTICES October 1922 authorship of the Fiore, which he is convinced is not by Dante. Signor R. Morghen seeks to re-establish the authenticity of the work of Ricordano Malaspini as a source for Dante's notices of contemporary history; and Signor P. Fedele examines the details of the attack on Boniface VIII at Anagni. N. The last two parts of the eighth volume of Bijdragen voor Vaderlandsche Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde, fifth series, besides another instalment of Mr. Elias's naval studies contain three articles. Dr. J. C. H. de Pater traces the history of the ' landraad bewesten Maas ' from the preliminary discussions of 1579 to the coming of Anjou. Dr. A. A. van Schelven deals with the criticisms passed on the baptismal ceremony of Frederick Henry in 1584. Dr. D. de Man has a subject of interest both for the ecclesiastical and the economic historian. He gives a brief and systematic survey from the printed sources of the measures taken by medieval lay authorities, territorial and municipal, in the Netherlands, to regulate the economic life of monastic communities. The subjects are many, from the purchase and renting of land to the number of admissions to the houses, the qualifications for admission, and the regulation of monastic trading. G. N. C. The longest article in the first two parts of the thirty-seventh volume of the Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis is a biographical sketch of Apollonius, <rrpaT?7yos of Heptakomia in the later years of Trajan and the earlier of Hadrian, which Dr. A. G. Roos has constructed from the ninety or so published papyri relating to him. 0. In the past we have noticed from time to time the two publications of the Allgemeine Geschichtforschende Gesellschaft der Schweiz, the Jahrbuch and the Anzeiger. By a resolution of 1921 these have now been fused together in the Zeitschrift fur Schweizerische Geschichte (Zurich : Leeman), of which the first volume in four parts has now been completed. Besides reviews of books and systematic surveys of new publications, the society's annual Bibliographic is included and there are a number of articles, notes, and docu- ments. Dr. Leon Kern follows good precedents in beginning the new periodical with a short survey of the development of Swiss historical technique. Dr. Felix Stahelin discusses the history of the Helvetii, Dr. Konrad Liitolf the early charters (dating from 1036 and 1045) of the monastery of Beromiinster, and Dr. Victor van Berchem a twelfth-century dispute between the abbey of St. Maurice of Agaune, in the Valais, and lay usurpers of its lands of Commugny. Among the articles on later periods that of most general interest is that in which Dr. Alfred Stern prints from Prussian archives the correspondence of Frederick William IV and Napoleon III in 1856 and 1857 about the affairs of Neufchatel. Although the coalescence of three publications into one is due to the difficulties of the times, we are confident that the editors will succeed in their hope of surmounting them, and we congratulate them without reserve on their beginning. P.